More from Siegfried Sassoon

  1. Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, Drawing no dividend from time's to-morrows. In the great hour of destiny they stand, Each with …
  2. Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin They think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.
  3. I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe t…
  4. I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolong…
  5. If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath, I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base, And speed glum heroes up the line of death.
  6. I'd say - 'I used to know his father well; Yes, we've lost heavily in this last scrap.' And when the war is done and youth stone dead I'd t…
  7. You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you'll never know The hell where youth an…
  8. Who will remember, passing through this Gate, The unheroic Dead who fed the guns? Who shall absolve the foulness of their fate, - Those doo…

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